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[Philm]

James, if you start getting paid for lessons, you will lose your amatuer status.
As your not registered with the PGA, you wont be able to play in any pro tournaments.
You'll have to resign from your club as you wouldn't be able to play in club comps or matches.
Where would you teach? Do you have permission from the range to teach? Do you have to hire a bay or do the range owners take a percentage of your earnings?

And if you play in any bounce matches with Smiffy, you'll have to play off scratch

Just a few questions you may have to look into but good luck with it

the PGA monoplay. sad really.

Phil

 

[The23rdman]

I'd rather eat my own testicles than risk injuring myself swinging that silly method.

 

[Philm]

Lifted from R&A website....

According to the Rules of Amateur Status, an amateur golfer is someone who does not receive remuneration for teaching golf or for other activities because of golf skill or reputation.

so if your teaching is based on your golf skill or reputation as a good golfer your snookered.

if on the other hand you aren’t known for your own golf skill but for simply being a good teacher then you’re free to teach away.

and make sure the reputation of your students becomes known rather than your own reputation.

Phil

 

[USER1999]

According to some on here, S&T has nothing to do with golf anyway.

And JustOne would certainly never make any money if it relied on his reputation for golfing prowess.

 

[Leftie]

Lifted from R&A website....

According to the Rules of Amateur Status, an amateur golfer is someone who plays the game as a non-remunerative and non-profit-making sport, and who does not receive remuneration for teaching golf or for other activities because of golf skill or reputation.

http://www.randa.org/en/Rules-and-Amateu....aspx#/amateur/

BUT, that is not the full story.

It is perfectly permissible in some circumstances for an amateur to receive payment for giving golf instruction.

If you can't find it, I'll give some pointers later.

(btw, James wouldn't qualify )

 

[JustOne]

James, if you start getting paid for lessons, you will lose your amatuer status.
As your not registered with the PGA, you wont be able to play in any pro tournaments.
You'll have to resign from your club as you wouldn't be able to play in club comps or matches.
Where would you teach? Do you have permission from the range to teach? Do you have to hire a bay or do the range owners take a percentage of your earnings?

And if you play in any bounce matches with Smiffy, you'll have to play off scratch

Yay... I could go around telling everyone I play off sctratch then!!! No matter how many I nobble it round in. QUALITY!!

 

[Smiffy]

So when it was reported that I nailed my 4 iron 27 yards and some people said "I'd have paid good money to see that" it could have led to me losing my amateur status if I had accepted?
Gosh!!

 

[USER1999]

Are trick shot specialists also pro golfers then?

When does it become entertainment, and not golf?

 

[JustOne]

When does it become entertainment, and not golf?

Whilst watching Smiffy?



FWIW I don't remember signing up to the PGA... is every golfer a member automatically? Is that like saying that if I drive a car I am part of Formula One?

Didn't Saltman play on a tour that isn't sanctioned by the PGA? I could start my own tour!!

 

[Deleted member 1418]

Yay... I could go around telling everyone I play off sctratch then!!! No matter how many I nobble it round in. QUALITY!!

Excellent, now I'll definitely be able to blame you the next time Smiffy / Snelly or Smiffy / Leftie do us in a match! I can hear my words now "Call yourself a feckin pro; useless knob"

 

[Philm]

arent you free to do as you will without becoming a pro?

what right have they reserved and where is it that says you cannot earn money as a teacher and still be an amatuer?

i no it was quoted in some set of rules, but who wrote those rules and who inforces them? they ultimately stop guys earning a living for being good at something?

i think its a joke really. if you feel that you would like to learn form someone and they would be interested in teaching you then fire away i say.

Phil

 

[Smiffy]

Excellent, now I'll definitely be able to blame you the next time Smiffy / Snelly or Smiffy / Leftie do us in a match! I can hear my words now "Call yourself a feckin pro; useless knob"

Oooooh look!!! I'm mentioned in despatches twice!!

 

[richart]

Excellent, now I'll definitely be able to blame you the next time Smiffy / Snelly or Smiffy / Leftie do us in a match! I can hear my words now "Call yourself a feckin pro; useless knob"

Oooooh look!!! I'm mentioned in despatches twice!!

For some reason losing to you seems to haunt people for years Smiffy. My shrink says my treatment for 'Smiffy Syndrome' is going well.

 

[Smiffy]

For some reason losing to you seems to haunt people for years Smiffy.

It's silly.
I keep forgetting how many of you there are out there.

 

[USER1999]

Not me. Never going to happen. Nope.

 

[Smiffy]

Not me. Never going to happen. Nope.

I expect we'll be in the same group on the Sunday at Woodhall Murph. You can have a go if you like.

 

[JustOne]

Not me. Never going to happen. Nope.

Smiffy has beaten everyone at some stage... he normally picks the guy who is on-form as a partner to carry him round until he plays one good hole (normally the 17th or 18th once he's warmed up)

 

[JustOne]

arent you free to do as you will without becoming a pro?

what right have they reserved and where is it that says you cannot earn money as a teacher and still be an amatuer?

i no it was quoted in some set of rules, but who wrote those rules and who inforces them? they ultimately stop guys earning a living for being good at something?

i think its a joke really. if you feel that you would like to learn form someone and they would be interested in teaching you then fire away i say.

Phil

I totally agree. If you hit a ball quite well around a field and someone wants to pay you for your time to show them how to do it then that should be a matter between the two of you, not the business of some kind of 'governing body'.

I'm quite good at building patios, if I show you how to do it will Travis Perkins make me turn pro??

 

[USER1999]

I expect we'll be in the same group on the Sunday at Woodhall Murph. You can have a go if you like.

You going to shoot level round the bracken then?

 

[Smiffy]

I expect we'll be in the same group on the Sunday at Woodhall Murph. You can have a go if you like.

You going to shoot level round the bracken then?

Nope. We're both going to have 26 points which will put us in the first group out with Vig and James